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Monday, August 13, 2007
08-12-07 - Britain urged to engage moderate elements in Hamas The report by the Commons foreign affairs select committee argues that western sanctions against Hamas, for its refusal to renounce violence and recognise Israel, have been "counterproductive".
08-12-07 - Israeli army storms Nablus amid Palestinian resistance Israeli forces rolled into the West Bank city of Nablus early Sunday morning and stormed a number of houses amid resistance by Palestinian fighters, Palestinian witnesses reported.
08-12-07 - Fateh spokesperson: ?Fateh armed groups are not operating against Hamas? Ahmad Abdul-Rahman, official spokesperson of Fateh movement, stated on Friday that Fateh is not operating against Hamas, and denied Israeli reports that armed cells of Fateh are acting against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
08-12-07 - Italian PM pushes dialogue to help Hamas 'develop politically' The aim of having a channel open, the spokesman said, was to encourage moderation and avoid dividing the Palestinians.
08-12-07 - Governor Ta?mari says Israeli checkpoints in Bethlehem increase steadily Governor of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, Salah Ta?mari, revealed on Sunday that the Israeli checkpoints across the holy city have been increasing steadily.
08-12-07 - PA forces resume police control over Area B in the West Bank
08-12-07 - Hamas claims to hold talks with Fatah A Hamas official in Gaza said Sunday that his organization was holding unofficial talks with representatives from the rival Fatah movement, as tension between the two factions continued to simmer on the ground. Fatah officials denied that any such dialogue was taking place.
08-12-07 - Haneya's aide urges Abbas to give place for capable leader
08-12-07 - U.S. Pressure on Israel for a Palestinian State Foreseen ** Yogev explains that the Bush Administration is working under the pressure of the 2008 elections. "By then," Yogev posits, "Bush plans to hit the Iranian nuclear infrastructures. This is why he is in such a rush to give the Palestinians and the moderate Moslem states fat weapons deals and a Palestinian state - in order to silence them in anticipation of the planned attack on Iran.".....MK Yuval Shteinitz (Likud) told Arutz-7 this morning that the summit is something that must be strongly opposed: "This summit could well lead to a Palestinian state, with clear Hamas and Iranian influence, right on the doorstep of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Ben Gurion International Airport. Even if it just serves as a small support for this idea, the summit is something that we must not allow."
08-12-07 - Fertilizer shortages hamper rocket fire But rockets continued to be fired towards Israel on Sunday, with three rockets landing in the western Negev.
08-12-07 - Video shows gunfight between Palestinian and Israeli guard The footage from Friday's incident, which came from several surveillance cameras, showed 29-year-old Israeli Arab Ahmed Khatib seizing the gun of one two guards from an ultra-nationalist Jewish association and opening fire twice.
08-12-07 - Israel to decide soon on easing W. Bank roadblocks Tom Lantos, a key U.S. congressional leader, told reporters in Jerusalem: "Premature removal of these checkpoints is a guarantee of violence and terrorism erupting."
Lantos is one of Israel's top agents on Capitol Hill.
08-12-07 - Palestinian health workers stage Gaza strike Palestinian health workers in Gaza launched three days of work stoppages on Sunday to protest against Hamas firing members of the rival Fatah party from senior posts after its takeover of the territory.
08-12-07 - Egypt warns it won't take back refugees who cross into Israel stepped up criticism of Egyptian border police, describing an incident in which the Egyptians allegedly shot and beat several Sudanese refugees in front of horrified Israeli soldiers.
08-12-07 - UN's website breached by hackers Slogans accusing the US and Israel of killing children appeared on the pages reserved for statements from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon.
08-12-07 - Walt-Mearsheimer Cancelled by Chicago Council on Global Affairs The Foxman ploy sounds suspiciously like the one they tried against Jimmy Carter when he was to speak at Brandeis. The University asked if instead of speaking alone he'd debate Alan Dershowitz, to which the former president said something like: "What? You must be kidding." Brandeis caved and Carter spoke alone as was befitting a former president.
08-12-07 - Speechless in Chicago John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt were scheduled to use the Sept. 27 address to outline their upcoming book, ?The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,? which is expected to be released by Farrar, Straus & Giroux early next month. But the president of the Chicago Council, Marshall Bouton, canceled the event under pressure from critics who were uncomfortable with the academics? arguments, according to a letter drafted by Mearsheimer and Walt to the Council?s board. The Israeli Lobby strikes again. Islamofascism is the problem in America? The greatest threat to American freedoms and security is the Israeli Lobby, and that includes the efforts and policies of the neocons.
08-12-07 - UK 'damaged' by Lebanon war delay The UK's reputation was damaged when the government hesitated in calling for an immediate end to the Lebanon war last year, MPs have said......It called some of Israel's military actions in Lebanon during the war "indiscriminate and disproportionate".
08-12-07 - Kill Or Convert, Brought To You By the Pentagon With the endorsement of the Defense Department, OSU is mailing "Freedom Packages" to soldiers serving in Iraq. These are not your grandfather's care packages, however. Besides pairs of white socks and boxes of baby wipes (included at the apparent suggestion of Iran-Contra felon Oliver North, according to OSU) OSU's care packages contain the controversial Left Behind: Eternal Forces video game. End Times Christianity is Christian Zionism.
08-12-07 - British academics: Stop boycott plan now Professor Mark Pepys, head of the Department of Medicine of the University of London's Hampstead Campus and a member of the University and College Union sponsoring the proposed boycott, warned that British academic institutions must distance themselves from any boycott of Israeli academia or risk seriously damaging ties with U.S. colleges and universities.
08-12-07 - Killing for Honor- A Deadly Part of a Larger Trend
08-12-07 - U.S.-Israel aid deal near The $30 billion package would come in parallel to stepped-up arms donations and sales by Washington to Egypt and Saudi Arabia, but Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) said Israel would still have the mightiest military in the region.
08-12-07 - Lantos not hopeful on Mideast conference Lantos said the arms sale "needs to be of such a nature that it does not represent a threat to the State of Israel."
08-12-07 - Time to talk to Hamas
08-12-07 - Break with Bush over middle East, MPs warn Brown The Labour-led Foreign Affairs Committee urged Gordon Brown's ministers to talk to Syria and Iran - part of President George Bush's 'axis of evil'.
08-12-07 - Israel not interested to get soldier freed: Captors Israel is not serious to get its soldier, held since more than a year in Gaza Strip, freed, a spokesman for the captors said Saturday.
08-12-07 - Japanese FM to launch Israel-PA-Jordan project The project, which is still in its nascent stages, is intended to create an "agro-industrial" park in the Jordan Valley region. Products made in this park will then be transferred to a "distribution center" that is to be built in Jordan, and from there to markets in the Gulf States and elsewhere.
08-12-07 - U.S. and Israel close gap on defense aid payouts Israel wins, as expected. See "Holdup in U.S. aid deal".
08-12-07 - Organization of Palestinian businessmen may enter politics Hani al-Masri said the group is looking for a new path in Palestinian politics, a hint at the growing weariness many have professed in regards to the leading two rival parties, Fatah and Hamas, particularly due to the deadly infighting between them which reached an apex with the Hamas takeover of Gaza in June.
08-12-07 - Unionof Labors Association Signs Agreement with Palestinian Counterpart The Jordan Union of Labors Associations today signed a joint cooperation agreement with its Palestinian counterpart.
08-12-07 - Peace in Iraq is inextricably linked to a Palestinian settlement For four decades, successive American administrations have failed to halt Israel's colonisation of the occupied territories. With Washington's redoubtable Israel lobby openly calling for an attack on Iran, the besieged President probably feels it would be safer to follow its lead than confront Israel over its refusal to enter into final status talks on a settlement to the Israel-Palestine conflict.....Should Israel's colonisation of the West Bank continue, the US will find itself defending what former US president Jimmy Carter has described as a regime of apartheid in which Jews and Palestinians living in the same area are subject to different laws and differential access to resources. Should America succumb to Israeli pressure to isolate Iran, it will lose the war in Iraq.
08-12-07 - No to evacuation An evacuation that could have been carried out in minutes, in the middle of the night and by surprise, as is done to the Palestinians whose homes are demolished, was carried out in the spotlight, with several weeks' advance warning, to allow the settlers to produce their big show and benefit with pictures of it.
08-12-07 - US moves to hobble Lebanon's president The Bush administration has quietly opened a new diplomatic front in its efforts to free Lebanon from Syrian influence, with a move to undermine the authority of the country's pro-Syria president.
08-12-07 - Barak calls Rice to reaffirm commitment to dialogue The call came after Barak reportedly dismissed as "fantasy" any peace deal with the Palestinians in the near future, comments which drew a swift rebuke from the US State Department.
08-12-07 - 176 treated for salmonella-linked food poisoning in Jordan Nearly 200 people were treated for food poisoning in Jordan after eating salmonella-tainted chicken sandwiches from a fast food restaurant in a Palestinian camp, officials said Sunday.
08-12-07 - Lebanese army turns down siege surrender offer The Lebanese army on Sunday rejected a conditional offer of surrender by Islamist extremists in a besieged Palestinian refugee camp in the north of the country, a mediator told AFP.
08-12-07 - Ukrainian national says employer raped her, confiscated passport Annual reports in which the U.S. ranks countries according to their efforts in this area have noted improvement in Israel in the prevention of trafficking for prostitution. However, Israel has still not met minimum standards when it comes to preventing human trafficking for other purposes.
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